Auguste Lumière Movies

Inside an operating room, a surgeon performs several procedures of "modern" surgery.

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets.

These four views were taken from a riverboat; they represent the most interesting parts of the journey through Paris. Panorama of the docks and the...

Two teams of artillery carriages, parading side by side past the grandstand during the inauguration ceremony of President McKinley in Washington DC.

A bunch of cyclists going past the camera.

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually...

Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.

Chasseurs Alpins march past in a gymnastic step, with music.

In a grove, a small boy and a small girl are dancing together.

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

The waterfalls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland, form a cloud of suspended droplets.

A firefighter, at the top of the ladder, sprays the building with his hose; to the right, two other hoses are activated.

Rickshaws and pedestrians traffic on the street.

A crowd leaves the cinema and disperses into the street while cabs circulate or park.

Panorama of the battleship "Brennus" flagship of the French fleet

A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.

A group of four children, circle dancing.

An artillery parade in Cairo near Cairo Citadel filmed by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière Brothers. Original title was "Défilé...

Another parade film from the Lumiere company.